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Cookie Notice

Introduction

To make this website work properly, and to provide the most relevant products and services to our site visitors, we place small data files called cookies on your device. This policy provides you with information about cookies and how to control them for this website.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie, to develop a record of the user’s online activity. Cookies on this site may be delivered in a first-party (set by this website) or third-party (set by another website) context and may also be set in association with e-newsletters you receive from us.

Cookies help us enhance your experience when using the website. They also help us understand how people use our site, such as which pages are most popular, so that we can better serve our site users.

Types of cookies

Functional cookies:

Functional cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes and do not remember where you have been on the internet. This category of cookies cannot be disabled.

Cookie name

Source

Expiry

Purpose

ai_session

This website

29 minutes

This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie.

ai_user

This website

One year

This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique user identifier cookie enabling counting of the number of users accessing the application over time.

ASP.NET_SessionId

This website

Session

General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server.

__RequestVerificationToken

This website

Session

This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser.

_dc_gtm_UA-xxxxxxxx

This website

36 minutes

This cookie is associated with sites using Google Tag Manager to load other scripts and code into a page. Where it is used it may be regarded as Strictly Necessary as without it, other scripts may not function correctly. The end of the name is a unique number which is also an identifier for an associated Google Analytics account.

daf-gdpr, daf-gdpr-consent-given

This website

One year

This cookie stores the user's confirmation/permission for the storage of cookies.

dafcountries_xx#lang

This website

Session

This cookie transfers the current language of the website to other applications.

SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE

westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com

Session

Analytics cookies:

Analytics cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Cookie name

Source

Expiry

Purpose

_ga

This website

2 years

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.

_gid

This website

One day

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. It stores and updates a unique value for each page visited.

_hjid

This website

One year

Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to extend the Hotjar User ID unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.

_hjTLDTest

This website

Session

Hotjar cookie.

_hjIncludedInSample

This website

Session

Hotjar cookie. This session cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels.

_hjCachedUserAttributes

This website

2 hours

Hotjar cookie.

jnAccel

www.connexys.nl

Session

This cookie is used by Connexys, our Third Party supplier for vacancy search to identify from which load-balanced server the current visitor is accessing the website.

Functional social cookies:

These cookies are set by Social Media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube, when you view or use embedded media. An example would be a cookie set by YouTube to measure views of an embedded video. These cookies can sometimes track your activities and are closely related to advertising cookies. However, disabling them may result in you not being able to view the embedded content.

Cookie name

Source

Expiry

Purpose

PREF

.youtube.com

4 years

YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. This is a common Google cookie, used across several of their services. Stored user preference, can be used to personalise ads on google searches.

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

.youtube.com

6 months

This YouTube cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos.

GPS

.youtube.com

27 minutes

YouTube cookie.

YSC

.youtube.com

Session

YouTube cookie.

S

.docs.google.com

One hour

Marketing cookies:

Marketing cookies are used to target advertising to a user (behavioural targeting). They are often served by third party companies, and track a user across websites.

Cookie name

Source

Expiry

Purpose

IDE

.doubleclick.net

One year

This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Google's real time bidding advertising exchange.

1P_JAR

.google.com

One month

This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

APISID

.google.com

2 years

This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device.

CONSENT

.google.com

This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

HSID

.google.com

2 years

This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites.

NID

.google.com

6 months

This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customers advertisements appear.

SAPISID

.google.com

2 years

This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device.

SID

.google.com

One year

Google uses this cookie to help customize ads on Google properties, like Google Search. For example, we use such cookies to remember your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and your visits to an advertiser’s website.

SIDCC

.google.com

3 months

This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

SSID

.google.com

2 years

This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

fr

.facebook.com

3 months

As a third party host provider, Facebook mostly collects data on the interests of users via widgets such as the 'Like' button found on many websites. This is used to serve targeted advertising to its users when logged into its services. Facebook also serves up behaviourally targeted advertising on other websites, similar to most dedicated online marketing companies. Contains browser and user unique ID combination, used for targeted advertising.

_fbp

.facebook.com

3 months

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.

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